“Boat” is a soft guitar track about being resilient and knowing you can’t be torn down after hard experiences. The track is the second single from Ed Sheeran’s fifth studio album, - (Subtract), and was released on April 21, 2023. Additionally, the song was the first song written for the album, excluding “The Hills of Aberfeldy” which was written over 10 years ago.

Rolling Stone states that the opening track, was written “over a piano-and-drums bed” but then was re-recorded into “a raw guitar song.”